Lotus

Where in the page is the answering machine message? I have a cold and it's gone to my chest and I really need a laugh this morning. While it is good that the publicity is rolling for Clay's new CD, why oh why do they have to use such an unflattering picture? How does this work anyway? Don't his PR people have anything to say about what photo is used? ETA Does EW have a history of giving lukewarm or bad reviews of Clay?

ETA: Couchie You mean that there aren't children of Clay fans who would be all too happy to buy a CD for their moms. Pretty easy present and Mom will be soooo pleased!!

I just read this over at CV

Hey jumpingjacks you're kidding, right? Hard to tell when I can't see your facial expression. I certainly was not telling you that you are petty etc.....just stating my view point as you were stating yours.

jazzgirl WORD! I think that if I had the chance to get Clay's autograph more than once I'd do so just so that I would have the pleasure of being able to feast my eyes on him up close for that millisecond that it takes for him to scrawl his name. Speaking for myself we're talking some serious addiction here and if I didn't live on the other side of the continent from New York, I'd be going there more than once fer shure. It's the air fare that's the killer, especially Canadian airlines and I don't travel enough to be able to use air miles.

This was posted by cindydoe at CV James Beaman's blog

I just downloaded this, thanks for the link. I have never printed a life size picture before. How do I go about doing it? Can anyone help? keeping faith I hope you hear from your daughter soon...it is so worrying. And if she is without power then she can't recharge her phone. I have kept my old plug in phone for just such times as when the power goes out...tho of course it doesn't help when the phone lines are down as well. from Fountaindawg at CH It was here that I found in "Clay's story -Did You Know?" all sorts of facts that I had not read before. It is interesting, I find, how much I enjoy reading and storing away all these little details of his life, like little treasures. A question for those of you who have seen Spamalot recently. The latest FOX Spack ...In the bottle dance is it the hat he is wearing that makes it looks as tho' Clay is watching his feet...and if not, has that changed so that he is now looking ahead as the actors on either side of him are doing?

I read the boards last night, shaking my head at all the sturm und drang. Would much rather have been reading about AI2 Rewind. Thanks for the link. After watching it, I don't see what all the fuss is about, they're young, enthusiastic and the only thing I could fault them on is the paucity of their language. Too bad they couldn't come up with some different words to describe his lusciousness.

Yes indeedy what a beautiful picture of Clay from Morganette It is one of those photos of Clay which is so beautiful that I just had to catch my breath. I came across that video of TITN early in my fandom, that is, in 06 and had no idea that I wasn't supposed to have it. Can someone tell me why it was never released?

Silence Sorry for your loss. Do you have a picture of your cup because I would like to see what a man with long laces looks like. When I was 12 my mother sent my brother and I off to summer camp for 2 weeks. It cost the least of any of the available camps and was run by a fundamentalist Christian group. The pastor had some interesting ideas ( I thought they were off the wall) which included that it was a sin to go to movies because by doing so you supported the sinful lives of movie stars.

heinz Here is a link to the site where you can watch all the superbowl commercials after the game and vote on which you think is the best, courtesy of Kim Kimando's Cool Site of the Day. Super Bowl Ads

What a nice surprise awaited me at the mailbox today. The pins arrived and very nice they are. Thank you cindilu2 and CouchTomato I thought the Sarah Silverman video with Mat Damien was a hoot. I would assume that the bleeped version on YouTube was the same as the broasdcast one. ETA I d/l'd the stage door video from last night of Clay shaking his hair loose....mmmmm....now wouldn't it be nice to run your finger thru his hair and fluff it up? Lotus slips off into fantasy land.

I was going to weigh in on the sad state of the media but everything I was going to say has been said. So for some humourous diversion....LBFCA has a new main page up in celebration of Clay's 5 th anniversary also at CH I found this link to a DHP hilarious performance at Just For Laughs The Therapist Song Enjoy.

Morning all. In a few minutes I'm off to the new gym and pool which has a great water slide. I had never been on a water slide in my life til this one and I tell you, this gramma is having so much fun zooming down it. Relevance to Clay? I don't think I would be so disciplined as to go to the gym regularly if it weren't for Clay. I wonder what the total poundage lost in Clayland has been I am writing this on my new laptop with Vista and just lost a paragraph. Damn! There's not much I can add to the discussion of the NY magazine article except to say that I do get very upset by the fallout from the article. I haven't had the years of experience of dealing with it that so many of you have. Channel surfing last nite I came across Chelsea somebody's show in which the whole gay thing was joked about. Right pissed me off! |Only positive thing was that one of the beautiful AP photos was prominent during her dissing. Gotta fly out of here.

Would someone please tell me what is the protocol for bringing recaps from OFC here? There one from yesterday from BichonLover which I really enjoyed reading and would like to share.

OOlsee Oh My...that clip is so distracting. Now what was I going to say? Hmm, right. I have been playing around looking at some of the archived threads and found the posts from May 24th, 2006 and for the days afterward. There was such excitement in Clayfanland after such a Clack drought. How times have changed. Now it's hard to keep up to all the Clack goodies. As you may know I came to this fandom late, June of 2006 and fell in love with that slim young AI2 man with his chicklet teeth and wonderful smile. I was not anywhere near as attracted to the maturing, manly Clay but I have realized in the last few months that I have come to love Clay as he is now. Finally, a breakthrough. I'm a Taurus and we take a time to adjust to change.

I'll be there on April 10th and 11th and since I'll be in NY until the morning of the 14th...who knows..seems going to Spamalot is a addicting.

KarenEh Thanks for the welcome, KarenEh and yes it's me. We had lunch together last March and I do hope to be back in Houston sometime this year tho' it probably won't be until the fall. I would love to meet and have a meal with those "shy retiring women" while I'm there. Have a good and safe trip home. YSRN Sheesh! and my daughter-in- law just told me last night that she thought a 250 GB external HD was obscenely large! HAH! The medical condition turned out to be allright after much testing and waiting and waiting. Claygary I get into Vancouver about twice a month. I did meet some fans at the ATDW CD party in September but have not touched base with any since, tho' I would love to. That was way before I realized that this fandom is also a wonderful, generous, supportive sisterhood. Playbiller Could you enlighten me about this, please? I haven't a clue what you are referring to tho' I have seen the interview of the time he was on her show.

Couch Tomato I have been totally addicted to everything Clay since June of 06 much to the detriment of my garden and housekeeping but oh what joy he has brought into my life. Still grieving for my DH of over 30 years, a sweet loving man and waiting for the results of the investigation of a medical situation which, in it worst case scenario, would leave me totally disabled, both mentally and physically, I was spending my evenings surfing the net. I would fall into bed exhausted but then able to sleep, my brain too tired to go thru all the what if's. So one night I happened to come across a video of Clay singing...one of the AI2 videos..and I wish I could remember which one it was and that was it. Who is this beautiful young man with the wonderful voice? There followed hours of video watching, blog reading (some of which made me heart sick) and I staggered off to bed at 4:00am, dazed and amazed. There followed more investigation and a growing feeling which I found puzzling. Never had I felt this way about a singer and here I was, a grandmother of 5, feeling like a teenager, a randy teenager at that. After days of downloading videos, magazine articles and pretty well anything else I could find, I discovered fan boards and found a place for myself at the LBFCA, a place which understood this mixture of lust and maternal feelings. Since then by reading other boards I found that my feelings were not unusual. Tho' now my feelings are not so much maternal as carnal. hah! For the following three months I would fall asleep at night with his voice in my ears, when I gardened, he was with me, when I woke in the morning his voice was singing in my heart. He got me through a rough patch. My children think my fandom is cute and are glad that I am enjoying life again. I have told a few friends and they too see what a difference there is in my attitude toward life but....there are those to whom I will not speak of Clay because of what I know will be their judgment of him and me. That's their loss. wandacleo I just want it to wane a little...just a little..that's all. I know there are lots of you with full time jobs. I'm retired. I should have lots of time to garden and write to my family and edit movies of my grandchildren instead of videos of Clay. Right I'm whining about not waning...it's late and I'm off to bed...I think... but maybe I'll read just a few more pages. I just read your post Bookwhore. In June of 06 there wasn't much going on in Clayland and I was spending my time discovering all the old stuff. In fact there was a drought of Clack so I had no idea what I would become when it all started again in September. OMG and then all the time learning about burning CD's then buying software and figuring out how to burn DVD's and worrying cause I had a few GB's of Clack on my computer. I just bought a 250GB external drive to be the Clack library and a new computer cause my old one refuses to burn DVD's of Holiday on Ice. After flying to Minneapolis for 4 days for 2 concerts, I'm no longer a Christmas concert virgin. And now I'm trying to figure out how to get to New York...and it is all so much fun...I do love it. Well you all know about how this goes.

playbiller Thanks for putting into words my reaction upon hearing goldarngirl's mp3 of UM. I think this is one of his best versions of UM. Also thanks for posting the list of Clay's and his fans' fund raising accomplishments. It's good to have the information that he has raised over a million dollars in one year for charity. Never know when it will come in handy to impress someone with the fact that Clay is so much more than a boy who came in second on AI. I hardly ever post but I do try to keep up to the boards but, really, it takes up so much time. My New Year's resolution was to spend less time reading the various boards but that lasted only until January 2nd. I envy those of you who are able to limit your time on this activity. Here it is almost 11 am PST and I am still in my flannelet nightie. Living alone, as I do, there is none to look askance at such behaviour. It's been just over a year and a half since I entered this wonderful world of Clay fandom....so someone please tell me, how long before the obsession wanes a bit and allows me to keep up to my garden and housework and figuring out this new computer I just bought that has Windows Vista. OK enuf whining.

Happy New Year, FCA I have just speed read yesterday and today's pages here and so pleased but not surprised to see that the $100,000 goal has been reached and surpassed. Karen Eh so glad to hear that you are starting to feel better and please continue to look after yourself, take it easy, coddle yourself, it takes a while to recover from pneumonia. Scarlett I'm another one who enjoyed Moulin Rouge from the start. I spent a lot of time lying in the sun in the nude reading TLOTR the summer of 1968 when I was living in the woods with my husband and baby. Later we read the books to our children and my son, in turn, has read them to his boys. We have all, including my mother, read the HP books. As for the small town hick discussions...I was born in the north of England and sent by my mother for elocution lessons at age 7 to get rid of that "awful Liverpudlian accent". I'd like to read some treatise on who decides which accent is acceptable and which are not. Anyone have any suggestions? Here in Canada in Ontario farm country I went to school from age 10 to 13 in a one room country school with 4 of us in grade 8...we helped the teacher with the grade ones and high school had 350 students when I started and about 500 when I graduated. Does that qualify me as a small town girl even tho I've spent 16 years of my life in large cities? Tonight I had the pleasure of watching the Ron James Back Home comedy special on CBC. He is one very funny comedian who hails originally from Cape Breton and he gave me some of the best, much needed, I almost peed myself, laughs. I'm off to bed...must find that Baileys for a little nightcap while I indulge myself in a Guy Gavriel Kay fantasy "Ysabel".

Karen Eh Thank you for the beautiful pictures. I finally had to give up right clicking and saving because I wanted all of them. I do hope you can get some sleep and that the antibiotic kicks in really soon. You really need to take care of yourself first. I'm saying this as a person who ended up in hospital because I had such a bad case of pneumonia. The wonderful photos you give us can wait.

ohhkay...D is it! Yep, I really like it. Although doing Clay is a double entendre...let's face it...how many people reading that pin are going to think of doing lunch and much as I would love to do Clay I just cannot wear a pin announcing that desire.

I much prefer option Cc probably because although I like the designs of A and B, I just cannot see myself wearing a pin which says "doing Clay"...sorry...just not me. I haven't been a fan long enough, I guess.

Thank you all for the welcome and djs111 for the belly laugh. goodnight